Complex-toothed flying squirrel

Complex-toothed flying squirrel
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Trogopterus
Heude, 1898
Species:
T. xanthipes
Binomial name
Trogopterus xanthipes
Synonyms
  • Pteromys xanthipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
  • Trogopterus mordax Thomas, 1914
  • Trogopterus himalaicus Thomas, 1914
  • Trogopterus edithae Thomas, 1923
  • Trogopterus minax Thomas, 1923

The complex-toothed flying squirrel (Trogopterus xanthipes) occurs in the southern Chinese provinces Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan. The common name refers to the teeth, which differ from those of other species of flying squirrels.

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